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  • Village Voice

    The Great Walls of Chinatown

    With the exception of the electric rice cookers, this Bowery tenement could have come straight from the Nineteenth Century.

    By Elizabeth Dwoskin

  • Houston Press

    Getting Off

    DUI attorney Tyler Flood wins 80 percent of his trials--even if his clients were 100 percent drunk.

    By Mike Giglio

  • Miami New Times

    Park or Die Tryin'

    From the homeless parking mafia to the meter fairy, finding a spot in Miami has taken a turn toward the surreal.

    By Gus Garcia-Roberts

  • City Pages

    The Baddest Men on the Planet

    Straight from the Sam's Club tire shop, Brett Rogers prepares to meet Fedor Emelianenko in mortal combat.

    By Bradley Campbell

Best Offbeat Answers

Published on October 15, 2003

Some of you hilariously misinterpreted our questions. Other respondents knew exactly what they were doing: riffing on our straitlaced queries with irreverent, weird, extremely unnecessary answers in questionable taste. Here are a few standouts:

BEST CAPITALIST: "Oxymoron"

BEST TEACHER: "Mrs. Robinson"

BEST LOCAL ENTERTAINER: "Crazy guy in front of Pottery Barn"

BEST DAILY PAPER: "Toilet"

BEST INDEPENDENT MUSIC STORE: "Sam Goody," "Tower," "Target," "Wal-Mart"

BEST BOWLING ALLEY: "Mormon Bowling Temple"

BEST RIDE AT THE FUN FOREST (SEATTLE CENTER): "Forgot his name"

BEST AMENITY FOR A MONORAIL STATION: "Muzak"

BEST SEATING SECTION AT SAFECO FIELD: "What's a Safeco?"

BEST PLACE TO PICK UP SOMEONE STRAIGHT: "The Republican Party"

BEST CAR FOR SEATTLE: "A bicycle"


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